Ornithologist and author Stephen Moss on the tits of Britain, from the blue tit and great tit to the crested tit and coal tit — plus the pair of ‘tits’ that aren’t really tits at all.
There are six species of ‘true tits’, of the family Paridae, in Britain. There are two other, unrelated species which share the name: the long-tailed tit and bearded tit (or reedling).
Blue tit
Numbering about 3.2 to 3.4 million pairs, blue tits come in at number eight in the…
